Reviving this zombie thread because the following post is not worth its own thread…also, it might help someone else down the line.
So for the past 8 years, I’ve occasionally seen the “I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain” thread pop up in the list of suggested threads for me to read, but I’ve never clicked on it. Today, the latest iteration was suggested:
…and finally opened the thread.
And saw no indication whatsoever of what the point is or what the game is. I tried to see if there was any connection between what I recognized were various song lyrics and other pithy phrases, but saw none.
I went to the first post so see if that had an explanation, but there was nothing there other than “New Thread!” I then went to the pinned threads for the Thread Games forum, wondering if there were instructions there. Nope, although I did see that Ed Zotti wrote that the first post in a new thread game will typically contain the challenge or premise of the game.
So I did a search (which took a while, because the board search function is often problematic) and went through all of the earlier threads. No explanation there either. Even when I finally found the OG thread, and breathlessly opened the very first post…and found nothing other than the original James Taylor “Fire and Rain” lyrics, followed by thousands and thousands and thousands of other snippets.
So what is the point? My search finally led to this thread, which cleared it up. There is no point. Ok, good to know. I can get behind that.
I’ll note that I am one of those people who simply does not hear lyrics. With few exceptions, almost all songs sound like the singer is singing in a foreign language to me. Now if I see the lyrics in print while the song is playing, it will click. But seeing lyrics without the accompanying music doesn’t do anything for me.
With that said, now that I know what I’m looking at, the James Taylor song is going through my head when I see the thread title.
P.S. The link for the original thread is broken in the OP of this thread. Here is a current link: